Im Jahr 2019 importierten deutsche Unternehmen Vorprodukte im Wert von 606 Milliarden Euro, was gut 55 Prozent der gesamten Warenimporte Deutschlands ausmachte. Zwei Drittel der importierten Vorprodukte kamen aus anderen EU-Mitgliedstaaten, weitere 5,3 Prozent bzw. 5,0 Prozent aus den USA und...

In the current highly competitive and fast-changing business environment, in which the optimisation of all resources matters, creating an efficient supply chain is crucial. Earlier studies on supply chains have focussed on aligning product/services and information flows while neglecting the...

There is growing interest in identifying the drivers of and barriers to green purchasing, and many publications focus on motivational factors. However, the effects of these factors on the activities and means applied to sustainable purchasing are seldom investigated. This paper addresses this...

In this paper, we develop a network perspective on the welfare gains from trade in today's internationally fragmented supply chains. Towards this end, we study a Ricardian trade model featuring trade in final and intermediate products, and introduce a novel comparative statics approach to...